The things other people have put into my head, at any rate, do not fit together nicely, are often useless and ugly, are out of proportion with one another, are out of proportion with life as it really is outside my head.

Kurt Vonnegut

author

Breakfast of Champions

book

Kurt Vonnegut

character

mental nonsense

concept

Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.

Kurt Vonnegut

author

Breakfast of Champions

book

Kurt Vonnegut

character

charm

ᐧ

effects of charm

concepts

The big show is inside my head.

Kurt Vonnegut

author

Breakfast of Champions

book

Kurt Vonnegut

character

mental games

concept

I couldn’t help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for--to find out how much a man could take without breaking.

Kurt Vonnegut

author

Breakfast of Champions

book

Kurt Vonnegut

character

purpose in life

ᐧ

breaking point

concepts

In nonsense is strength.

Kurt Vonnegut

author

Breakfast of Champions

book

Kurt Vonnegut

character

strength

ᐧ

nonsense

concepts

Everybody else is a robot, a machine. Some persons seem to like you, and others seem to hate you, and you must wonder why.

Kurt Vonnegut

author

Breakfast of Champions

book

Dwayne Hoover

character

dealing with others

ᐧ

dealing with hateful people

concepts

Roses are red, And ready for plucking, You’re sixteen, And ready for high school.

Kurt Vonnegut

author

Breakfast of Champions

book

Dwayne Hoover's family

character

being sixteen

ᐧ

starting high school

concepts

People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve.

Kurt Vonnegut

author

Breakfast of Champions

book

Kurt Vonnegut

character

harm of chemicals

ᐧ

trying to improve life

concepts

Goodbye blue Monday.

Kurt Vonnegut

author

Breakfast of Champions

book

Dwayne Hoover

character

depressing

ᐧ

mondays

concepts

Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn’t meant to be reasonable.

Kurt Vonnegut

author

Breakfast of Champions

book

Dwayne Hoover

character

reason

ᐧ

unreasonable

concepts

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

Kurt Vonnegut

author

Breakfast of Champions

book

Dr. Breed

character

knowledge

ᐧ

power of knowledge

concepts

If I want to make friends with him, I ask him what he believes. He tells me, and I say, “Yeah, yeah - ain’t it the truth?”

Kurt Vonnegut

author

Breakfast of Champions

book

Robo Karabekian

character

making friends

ᐧ

being agreeable

concepts

I can have oodles of charm when I want to.

Kurt Vonnegut

author

Breakfast of Champions

book

Kurt Vonnegut

character

charm

concept

Seems like the only kind of job an American can get these days is committing suicide in some way.

Kurt Vonnegut

author

Breakfast of Champions

book

hatred of work

concept

There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.

Kurt Vonnegut

author

Breakfast of Champions

book

Kurt Vonnegut

character

order

ᐧ

adapting to chaos

concepts

So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines.

Kurt Vonnegut

author

Breakfast of Champions

book

Kurt Vonnegut

character

being too agreeable

ᐧ

independent thinking

concepts

Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present.

Kurt Vonnegut

author

Breakfast of Champions

book

character

ᐧ

concepts

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